Olaudah Equiano: Influential and Inspirational
Date Submitted: 02/14/2004 01:54:56
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 3 pages (758 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 3 pages (758 words)
Equiano: Influential and Inspirational
According to his famous autobiography, written in 1789, Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797) was born in what is now Nigeria. Kidnapped and sold into slavery in childhood, he was taken as a slave into the New World. As a slave to a captain in the Royal Navy, and later a Quaker merchant, he eventually earned the price of his own freedom by careful trading and saving. Coming to London, he became involved in …
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